Charles Bukowski

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you can vote before obeying the orders.

Dogs have fleas, people have problems.

An intellectual is someone who says a simple thing in a complicated way. An artist is someone who says a complicated thing in a simple way.

A coward is a man capable of foreseeing the future. A brave man is almost always a man without imagination.

Love? Come on, people don't want love; people want to succeed, and one of the things they can do that is in love.

Knowledge, if not applied, is worse than ignorance.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was the lack of hope that sank a man.

Anything can drive a man crazy because society is built on false foundations.

If something bad happens, you drink to forget it; if something good happens, you drink to celebrate it; and if nothing happens, you drink to make something happen.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

My ambition is hindered by my laziness.